Vanessa Smith

Multitalented Vanessa Smith has logged more than 15 years in publishing as an editor and designer, and more recently added a writing string to her bow. Beginning her career at John Wiley & Sons with Michael, she has also been employed at Lonely Planet and Penguin, and also detoured into the education sector to produce elearning courses for respected VET publisher Aspire Learning Resources.

As a freelancer, her clients have included Dorling Kindersley, Fairfax, Hachette, Hardie Grant, Random House, Text Publishing and the Jetstar (Asia) and Tiger Tales inflight magazines; her favourite among her writing credits is the weekly column ‘News Bites’ for popular restaurant review site Eatability.com. In recent years, Vanessa was honoured to present guest lectures on ‘Digital Publishing for Education’ for RMIT as an alumna of the Graduate Diploma in Editing and Publishing.